Tire for vehicle-wheels.



E. KEMPSHALL. TIRE POR VEHICLE WHEELS.

APPLIOATION' FILED JULY 25, 1907.

` 906,804. Patented Dec. 15, 1908.

UNrrED STATES PATENTA onirica.,V

ELEAZER KEMPSHALLYOF LONDON, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO KEMPSHALL TYRE COMPANY.

OF EUROPE, LIMITED, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

TIRE Fon VEHICLE-WELS.

.No.,aoasoa wv Specification of LetterspPatent'.-

Patented Dec. 15, 1908.

Application med July 25, 1907. semi N0..aa5,514.

To all 101mm 'it may concern:

Be 1t known that I, ELEAZER KEMP.- sHALL, `a citizen of the United States of America, and residing at the Hotel Russell,

Russell Square,` London, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in and Connected with Tires for Vehicle- VV Vheels of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to tires for vehicle Wheels and particularly to the type of tire wherein a number of alternately arranged elast1c and non elastic sections are vull canized within an elastic covering or en velop.

The object of .the present invention is to increase the resiliency of the tire and to revent spreading at the tread and it consists,

lbriefly stated, in using for the compara Fig. 2, Fig. 2 is a circumferential section of a portion ofthe same, and Fig. 3 is a cross section of a slightly modified form of tire.

In carrying out the invention according to one mode the compara-tively non-elastic secwhole is then inclosed Within tions are stamped, out of material such as employed for what is known as rubber belting, that is, a material comprising layers of rubber or the like and fabric vulcanized together. This material is comparatively non-elastic or firmly resists compression aplied in a direction parallel to the rubber ayers, but is to a certain extent flexible under vtransverse stresses.l As shown in Fig. 2, the sections, a', of this materialvare alternately arranged with similar sections, b, of elastic material, i. e., rubber.' The a rubber covering and vulcanized.

The shape of the sections may be varied, and as shown, they may be formed with large coincident holes, c, to form a continuous interior.

It is preferred to make the sections somewhat flat opposite the tread, as indicated at d, and then to place around this portion, whenV the sections, a and b, are in position, alternate layers of rubber and fabric, as shown in Fig. 1, or first to apply a cushion,

e, (see Fig. 3), of rubber of segmental crosssection inclosed in or strengthened with fabric and over the whole to apply the rubber and fabric covering. The'complete tire is, of course, vulcanized. In this waya rounded tread may be obtained capable of resisting spreading.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters 1. A tire comprising two sets of transversely arranged sections having flattened outer edges, one set of said sections, being of composite formation including4 rubber and fabric vulcanized together, the fibers of the fabric adhering to the adjacent rubber, the two sets of sections being alternately disposed, alternate layers of rubber and fabric over said fiatzened yportions and the Whole vulcanized.

2. In a tire for vehicle wheels, elastic sections alternately arranged with sections of a material comprising layers of elastic material and fabric vulcanized together, the fibers of the fabric adhering to the ad .jacent elastic portions, and coincident holes in the sections forming a continuous hollow interior and the whole vulcanized.

3. A tire composing transversely arranged elastic 'sections alternately arranged with transverse sections of composite material comprising layers of elastic material and fabric vulcanized together, the fibers of the fabric adhering to the adjacent elastic material, and a cover vulcanized to all the sections.

In testimony whereof I havesigned my name to this specification in the presence of two subscriblng witnesses.

ELEAZER KEMrsHA-LL.

Witnesses ALBERT E. PARKER, HERBERT R. KERsLAKE. 

